Show chicago 0 center yon told me yesterday that chicago a literary center yon demanded tho chicago man of his friend from boston yes that is what I 1 said replied the boston man you told me that we might have a few fair newspaper writers and a few cheap john authors but that I 1 find the name of a crackerjack bang ap poet like oliver wendell holmes for instance or longfellow or some of those other guys in the whole city directory yon continued the chicago man yes I 1 said like that was the reply well youre way off cully went on the chicago man pulling a paper out of his inside pocket 0 W holmes lives over hero on the west side in the swell part of it too ashland avenue weve got three or four Long fellows a decoro of lowells and a column or more of emersons but that aint all find in the directory a dozen walter scotts a few Tenny sons about a page of spencers two charles one thackeray and one shakespeare now what have you to say about Chi cagos not being a literary center well its better than I 1 thought acknowledged the boston man our directory show such a list of illustrious names chicago times herald |